Chapter 14 15 and 16 Test
Across
- 2. was the foremost poet-composer of the Ars nova
- 4. multivoiced music
- 6. earliest kind of polyphonic music, developed from the custom of adding voices above a plainchant
- 7. expanded the dimensions of organum by increasing the number of voice parts, first to three then to four
- 10. Pope Gregory the Great is credited with codifying these melodies together.
- 11. little ascending and descending symbols that later developed into musical notation consisting of square notes on a four-line staff.
- 12. a religious community of individuals who chose to gather in systematic religious practice
- 14. three to five or six notes sung to each syllable.
- 15. Voices alone
- 16. often referred to as scales
- 17. based on principles of major-minor
- 18. melodic style of one note set to each text syllable
Down
- 1. sometimes just called chant; music of the early Christian church.
- 3. wandering musicians in the south of France were known as
- 5. the first composer of polyphonic music whose name that we know
- 8. melodic style with two to four notes set to each syllable
- 9. a fixed pattern of long and short notes that is repeated or varied, over a sustained bottom voice taken from the chant of the same name
- 13. alternating between two groups of singers
- 15. Nova means new art
- 19. a term that refers to the order of the church services and the structure of each service.